February 2002

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Features

The Magic of Microarrays

DNA microarrays could hasten the day when custom-tailored treatment plans replace a one-size-fits-all approach to medicine

Bejeweled Worlds

The Network in Every Room

Thanks to ingenious engineering, computers and appliances can now communicate through the electrical power wiring in a house

By W. Wayt Gibbs

Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets

The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals

By John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss

Sustainability

The Bottleneck

We have entered the Century
of the Environment, in which the immediate future is usefully conceived as a bottleneck: science and technology, combined with foresight and moral courage, must see us through it and out

By Edward O. Wilson

Departments

Letters

Letters

Advances

Coal Control

Setback for Super-K

Paving Out Pollution

Count to 10

Quieting Killer Wakes

What Clones?

Early Warning

Sonic Womb

Parts of Speech

Splitting with Sunshine

Into the Maize

Otherworldly Air

Recommended

Treasonous Idealism

Skeptic

The Gradual Illumination of the Mind

Anti Gravity

Kabul Session

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Perspectives

A Ready-Made Controversy

In Brief

Data Points: February 2002

Brief Bits: Feburary 2002

Puzzling Adventures

Shifty Witnesses

Profile

Telecom's Man of the Moment

Staking Claims

Intellectual Improprieties

Innovations

Down with the Bad, Up with the Good

By the Numbers

Assembling the Future

Technicalities

Surrounded by Sound

Working Knowledge

Eye in the Sky

Ask the Experts

End Points: February 2002

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